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Fewer teens take drugs now than a decade ago. In 1995, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 19% of surveyed schoolkids said they had used an illegal drug in the past month; in 2005, 16% did. That's a small dip, but kids' smoking tumbled 40% during the...
Epstein's central psychobiological contention--that teens have the brain potential to make adult-level judgments--also doesn't hold up. True, teens have better reaction times and memories than adults, and most have adult-like moral-reasoning skills by adolescence. But a 2000 paper in Behavioral Sciences and the...
Over a cup of tea at Sydney's Wharf Theater, Brendan Cowell is talking about the time he gave up drinking for 11 months in 2005. "And I didn't even have one of those brandy chocolates," says the 30-year-old playwright and actor, his laconic bearing becoming increasingly...
There is no question that Harvard students need to become more cautious. But the needed cultural change ought to also transcend to a higher level: Authorities might need to suppress their gut instinct to calm and reassure their charges when it comes to crime, and exhortations to caution need to...
It's called "The Last Marathon" - a 26.2-mile race across ice, rock, snow, and mud on Antarctica's King George Island. Runners huddle by the start line, shielded from the wind in the lee of a Russian research base, before bursting out along the rugged, hilly course. Up and...